Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-01

Life at "a Famous Resort In KENTUCKY
Some Poker-PIaylDg on the Quiet.

some Poker-pIayiDg on the quiet
Saws a letter from Blue Lick Springs:
The people of the south know very ut
tie of this famous old resort, except as
they gather their Information from
books. They have read OF the dark
and bloody ground;' and he names
of Boone. and kenton, and simon GIr-
ty, the renegade, are familiar to them
but only rs shadows, not as real hn-
mar beings. Yet within u hundred
yards of where | write Boone had his
salt kettles, and in less than half u
mile of this house the battle Of Blue
Licks was fought between the whites
under Boone and kenton and the IN
dams from the Shawnee towns in Ohio
near where Chillicothe now stands.
Every square foot of earth here is his
toric ground, and welded to Il memory
of heroism.
Before the wa this was n great re-
sort for ou;aern people and the ground
on which the Arlington now stands
was occupied by Il hotel which was the
finest building of the kind III old Ken
lucky. Old man Throckmorton kept
the hotel in lis palmy days and Henry
Clay never thought that his vacation
was we'll spent if he did not put IN the
most of it at the Blue Licks. The
drives about here, and they were then,
as well as now, the best in the State,
were gay with the equipagcs Of south
crn gentlemen of the old school who
came hundreds of miles with their W
carriages and horses and servants TO
drink the waters and to play poker.
Their wives and daughters drank the
water and the ole gentlemen contented
themselves with mint julcps and the
poker table. In the matter Of poker
playing Mr.. Clay and John G. Brock
inridge were both said To be very pro-
ticient, and neither of them were at all
backward when the iulepS were passed
around. Throckmorton, too, was a
typical host, and never let the game
flag nor the glasses get dry for the
lack Of replenishment. There has been
some poker played here since. but on
the dead quiet YOU know, for gambling
is now a felony in Kentucky. Yet |
saw Il game some years ago with u
United States Senator and some other
distinguished Kentuchians in il which
lasted all night, and ! have heard that
there is a pretty adventures at tho
springs now VINO took in a fair share
OF good money from some rich young
stcrs hailing from Florida, over 4 game
nominaliy conducted 'only for fun,
YOU know" She told me, naiycly
enough, speaking of the young men:
''They were very polite 90 me, and
played as if they wanted me to vim
They had plenty Of money, and ! sup
pose thought they got value received
for what they lost in the pleasure of
her society.
The water of the Blue Lick spring
has very great medical virtues, and is
barrelcd and shipped all over the coun-
try. Every old topper knows the vir-
tues of IA glass of Blue Lick" next
moruin4 before breakfast. But the
taste Of the exported article is abom-
Unable, while if taken fresh from the
spring it is rather pleasant than other
wise, and it is certainly much more
eilicacious when taken fresh. After it
has been taken from the spring even
an hour it loses much Of ns consti-
tuent virtue, aud people who drink il
at a distance from here generally put
Il little salt in it. But when fresh it
needs no addition to its strength, and
they do say that y bath of il viii fresh
en- up "A man who is just on the verge
of iim-iams until he feels like II 2-year-
old colt in a bluegrass pasture. |
don't know how that i. but a man who
fnUovs rocb drink of Bourhon with =
1Ia-s of f,nsh Kjup lick water can
GrInk ~ murb \, he please, and never
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No snrinn. in Xxx ntlst &C
mor.h,. llnat 3,.,... H., ,r,I s c.Y.I.I
VITA salt, where the ooly water dries
up from it m spots. There is n good
walk to 1t. however. ANA a handsome
pavilion around 1t tagged With stone.
Inc water bubbles up the midst OF
u rock-Nallcd ocia%on about SIX feet
across and about Us" same depth. The
fountain IS clear and beautiful, the